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that modern mass media has sculpted, then we have certainly lost all integrity, Captain!
We are not, in that case, critiquing ourselves. Rather, we are reacting to a Simulation, a spectacle presented for our viewing pleasure and predicted reactions. The perceived good is related to ratings, advertising slots and the profit that ensue, not to mention the more important message of the increasing prevalence of Corporate Occupation that the mass media serves as it spews the carefully designed message of manufactured consent to be controlled and subdued at all costs.
We are being given a grotesque distortion delivered on a massive scale. This hideous, national straw man is presented in a way that would make Dorian Gray envious as to the contrast between the facade presented as reality and its hidden painting of truth in our collective attic. Baudrillard was so on the mark in the sense that the media's endless onslaught of the hyperreal eclipses the reality of our physical, daily lives for so many. It is alluring and captivating and it stands to serve as nothing more than a trumpet call to our complete subservience to corporate monoculture as a replacement for our nation and governance.
How do you debate a nationalize fiction and critique a false representation that intends to replace our concept of ourselves and our context?
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